Department of Health and Human Services
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918
ICN #006719 - January 2010

PIN 700293

In 1918-1919, the worst flu in recorded history killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The U.S. death toll was 675,000 - five times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in World War I. Where did the 1918 flu come from? Why was it so lethal? What did we learn?

Study materials are available at avaianflu.gov.


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Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
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A Presentation Of The U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services

Executive Producer for CMS: Dr. James Randolph Farris, Md

A Film by Lisa Laden

Narrated By S. Epatha Merkerson

Editor: Dmitry Torgovitsky
Project Manager for CMS: Julia Lothrop
Videography: Michael Peizer
Original Music: John Keltonic

Associate Producers
Cory Adcock-Camp
Roland Palugod

Sound
Greg Breazeale
Jonathan Cohen
Aaron Webster
David Girard
Tommy Lee

Additional Videography
Al Hintenach

Sound Design
Richard Humphries
Takoma Media

Archival Research
Edward Engel
Cory Adcock-Camp

Animation
Marie Dauenheimer
Devon Stuart

Marketing and Communications
Bunny Tavares, Tavaresmedia
Melanie Pope, Melanie Pope Public Relations

Photographs Courtesy of
Louis Diggs
Robert Einweck, St. Paul-Ramsey County Public Health
Isabelle Fushille
Cynthia Goldsmith
Dr. Johan Hultin
Priscilla Reyna Jojola
Lisa Laden
Dr. Jack Layton
Allen Meyers
Carmen Trujillo Portillo
Ned Rozell, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dr. Martha Warnock, University of California, San Francisco

Alaska State Library
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Anchorage Museum Association
Baltimore County Public Library
The Baltimore Sun
Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest
City Archives, City of Philadelphia
Colorado Historical Society
The Daily Iowan
Denver Public Library
The Detroit News
Dundalk & Patapsco Neck Historical Society
El Paso County Historical Society
El Paso Public Library
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Indiana Historical Society
Johns Hopkins, Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
Joseph Levine & Sons, Philadelphia, PA
Library of Congress
Luther Seminary Archives
Museum Of History and Industry, Seattle, WA
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Funeral Directors Association
National Library of Medicine
National Museum Of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Naval Historical Center
Northeastern State University
Oakland Public Library
Temple University Urban Archives
Tennessee State Library and Archives
University of Alaska, Anchorage
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
University of Iowa Archives
University of Pennsylvania Museum
University of Texas at El Paso Library, Special Collections Department
Wisconsin Historical Society

Photograph by Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Photograph by Richard Samuel Roberts
Courtesy of Bruccoli Clark Layman Inc.

Additional Footage Courtesy of
Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The March of Time
National Archives and Records Administration
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Red Jet Films
Retirement Living TV
Jeffrey Taubenberger
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of State

Journals and Newspaper Articles
The Associated Press
The Baltimore Sun, December 30 © 2005, The Baltimore Sun Company. All Rights Reserved.
Los Angeles Times, December 7 © 1968
The Nation’s Health, June/July © 2009, American Public Health Association.
Science News, March © 1997

Special Thanks to
Claudia Abeita, Isleta Pueblo
Richard Archuleta, Taos Pueblo
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Kari Bostrom, Luther Seminary Archives
Cordelia Clapp, RN, Kanza Health Center, Kaw Nation
Marjorie Kamys Cotera
Louis Diggs
Leann Dreadfulwater, Cherokee Nation
El Paso County Historical Society
Marta Estrada, El Paso Public Library
Isabel Fushille
Roger Goodacre, CMS
Stephen Greenberg, National Library of Medicine
Alexandra Lord, U.S. Public Health Service
Ava Martin, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
Oakdale Emory United Methodist Church
Traci McClellan, National Indian Council on Aging
Navajo Nation
Claudia Rivers, UTEP Library
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Salem United Methodist Church
St. Patrick’s Church
Lillian Solis, RN, Indian Health Service
University of Georgia
Jhones Vergara, Altamed Buena Care Senior Center

Music Copyright 2008, JDK Music, Inc., ASCAP, Used by Permission

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